CHAPTER 8

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Unsafe Codeand Interoperability

Few real-world applications are composed strictly of managed code. Instead, they frequently make use of in-house or 3rd party libraries implemented in native code. The .NET Framework offers several mechanisms to interoperate with native code that is implemented in a number of widespread technologies:

  • P/Invoke: enables interoperability with DLLs exporting C-style functions.
  • COM Interop: enables consumption of COM objects by managed code as well as exposing .NET classes as COM objects to be consumed by native code.
  • C++/CLI language: enables interoperability with C and C++ via a hybrid programming language. ...

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